Nematode-bacteria mutualism: Selection within the mutualism supersedes selection outside of the mutualism

Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 687-695

  Morran, Levi T ^a,b   Penley, Mckenna J ^a,b   Byrd, Victoria S ^a   Meyer, Andrew J ^a   O'Sullivan, Timothy S ^a,b   Bashey, Farrah ^a   Goodrich Blair, Heidi ^c   Lively, Curtis M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Coevolution; Experimental selection; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTHROPOD; BACTERIUM; COEVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; NEMATODE; SELECTION; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ARTHROPODA; NEMATODA; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RHABDITIDA; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; RHABDITIDA; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 84959547267     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12878     Document Type: Article

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